Overdiscipline – making yourself do too much
When we add more discipline to our lives - new food habits, a new exercise routine, a new rhythm for our work day - we need to steer a balance…
Simple reset: going on retreat
This week I'm on retreat. A whole week away from phone, internet, even snail mail. A week to rest, relax, unwind. Let go and press the reset switch. Some of…
Why simple?
In my recent blog posts, you'll have noticed the running theme of simplicity. You might be wondering why bother with simplicity. After all, if you're bright and can handle complex…
Systemising: notebooks
I have to admit it. I'm a pen and paper person. I like writing. Which means being a notebook and pen person when it comes to to-do lists, project ideas,…
Simplify your schedule
Thirty eight hours in a working week. Thirty eight hour-shaped boxes to fill. Tens, if not hundreds of not-hour-shaped actions and projects to fit into those thirty eight boxes. This…
Finding your One Thing
Everywhere's talking about it. At least, everywhere that I've been hanging out lately is. Focus. Do what's essential. Simplify. Finding the One Thing is finding where your purpose, passion, talent…
Intelligence and love
For a long time, I saw my mind as an obstacle. An obstacle that got between me and friends. It hurt. Maybe it began when, in efforts to console and…
Genius mind… hellish emotions
We all know someone - it might even be us - who's super-bright, knows all sorts of stuff, is fast to process information and create new solutions - in short,…
Making resolutions that stick
It's New Year resolutions time again... time to put on the thinking cap and figure out how you want to approach the 2015. But you know how most resolutions fall…
Handling the holiday season’s loom effect
Every year, around about 10 days before Christmas, I start feeling scattered and distracted. Something is looming large on the horizon, casting a shadow over everything else. Work slows down,…